Facebook to shut down its facial recognition program

Meta, formerly known as Facebook, has announced that it will shutdown its face recognition system. As a result, the Facebook services that rely on its face recognition system will be removed in the coming weeks. According to the announcement Facebook (sorry Meta) has made this decision to satisfy the growing concern from users and regulators….

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Instagram Link Sticker allows everyone to share links in a Story, regardless of follower count

Instagram has officially removed restrictions to use a link in stories. No followers count restriction applies to using Link Sticker. The new Link Sticker also works on the cross-posted Facebook Story. Instagram has now allowed everyone to add links to their stories, the feature that was previously restricted to only those accounts that had 10,000…

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WhatsApp launches Coronavirus Information Hub amid Scrutiny over Misinformation Management

WhatsApp has launched the Coronavirus Information Hub portal in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNDP. The Facebook-owned, popular social messaging platform has also donated $1m to the Poynter Institute’s International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN). The company launched the information hub portal for the novel coronavirus to provide simple, actionable guidance for health workers,…

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Daraz launches Private Traffic Solution for DarazMall Brands, in collaboration with Facebook & Google

Daraz, Pakistan’s leading online marketplace, launched Daraz Private Traffic – a first of its kind digital marketing program developed in collaboration with Facebook and Google – at the second annual DarazMall Summit. Over 400 leading brands attended the events which were held in Karachi and Lahore on the 22nd and 24th of July, respectively. As…

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Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram may be integrated by the end of 2019

Facebook is working on integrating its three social apps for chat and photo sharing – Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram with end-to-end encryption. At first it may get you with an impression that all of these apps and/or services will be merged, but that’s not the case. Instead, Facebook is intending to allow cross-messaging between Messenger,…

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Facebook will demote Low-Quality webpage links in your News Feed

Facebook will now identify and stop delivering webpage links, which have low-quality content or excessive ads, in your News Feed – announced on Wednesday. According to measurements taken within the new algorithm, Facebook will consider webpages as low-quality if they “contain little substantive content and have a large number of disruptive, shocking or malicious ads.”…

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Facebook Instant Games on Messenger

Facebook globally rolls out Instant Games on Messenger, with New Features and Games

In a recent announcement, Facebook has started rolling out its Instant Games on Messenger more broadly for the 1.2 billion people who use Messenger every month. In addition to the availability expansion, Facebook also has added new features to the online gaming platform which were previewed to developers at this year’s F8 conference earlier. Users will not be able…

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